Xismosa Xit

Soy Furia, Soy Amor

Translation: I Am Fury, I Am Love

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🖊️ Prose and Poetry of the “Week”

🐇 Jackalope Burrows

🪶 Quotes Quail

🎵 (O)pposum Playlists

🐦‍⬛ Cuervos Chismoses

🐈‍⬛ The Void Shouts Back

Prose and Poetry of the Week

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The 8 different kinds of love, (or maybe a 9?) and my writing as applicable:

Most of these are about others, and I wrote instructions on How To Write About Another

I would like to put forth my own kinds of love:

what is grief if not love persevering
Wandavision (2021) show

And finally, unrelated but still proud:

How To Break Yourself Down

It DID win something! An honorable mention in this Instructions for a Feeling challenge. Previously mentioned in my September 2025 newsletter where I was surprised it didn’t win something 😅

We Will Bury You

This piece scratches the first iota of the depth of my anger. I don’t know how to express it with resorting to screams that tear my soul out to find and terrorize those who hurt us.

Fuck you, undeserving man. Thank goodness for you, Dolores Huerta, Ana Murgia, Debra Rojas, Esmeralda Lopez, and all of the women who came forward.

Jackalope Burrows

Things I’ve learned, laughed about, and/or obsessed over

  • Heated Rivarly, not the show itself, but the fact that an alarming number of straight women are OBSESSED with the show. I have only seen one (1) episode, and then I found an article that saved my curiosity (if you can’t afford a paywall, perhaps check it out here)
what's happening to the american audience is truly if you give a victorian child a doritos locos taco
  • This period-accurate video, however, has convinced me to watch it (not my friends’ pleadings 🙈 sry 🙈)
  • The loss of innocence, especially in LA
  • There was a tweet I saw back in 2019: “LA is three hours away from LA” ;-;
  • The Mazateco whistling language in Oaxaca, Mexico
  • “Is the house made of flesh?”
  • tarot cards
the tarot cards told me to beat your ass
  • i did succumb to consumerism and got a Sput Hut tote, the natural consequence of proclaiming my love of Spud Hut lore

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Quotes Quail

I’m always listening 😈 y’all are funny

You know, the funny thing about this section is that is was inspired by the favorite parts of magazines: the quotes sections. And it’s kinda fun that so many of you have said it’s your favorite part too! See if you can find yourself 👀

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  • “She’s in a jar a the funeral home at the moment, which we’ll come back to” – about her grandmother
  • EXCUSE ME WHAT!
  • WE’LL COME BACK TO???
  • “She’s such a cunt I love that bitch so much” – about her cousin

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  • “Every day I talk to you I go home and cry. With her, it’s EVER CONVERSATION” – a co-worker complaining about me
  • “Oh good, then I’m doing my job!” – me 😇

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  • “Mom, is that you?” – me to my mother while we were watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) where one of the wedding gifts they receive is a BABY BASSINET
  • “No, I just pray. And I’m a very good prayer” – DAMN MOM

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  • “My favorite grandma” – cutie about me

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  • “It’s 11:11” – she was looking at Heated Rivalry (2025) fan art

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  • “I hate you.” – me
  • “As you should baby ☺️” – my cousin

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  • “What kind of jump scare?” – Wife
  • “Metaphorical” – Spouse 

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  • “This is unexpected.” – co-worker about me being in the lunch room
  • “You’re welcome.” – me
  • “I didn’t say it was appreciated.”

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  • “These muscles are purely decorative” – Jack McBrayer on Zillow Gone Wild, Season 2 Episode 2

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  • “CON ESA BOCA REZAS A TU DIOS?” – my dad if cooking shows were more like novelas
  • “YOU PRAY TO YOUR GOD WITH THAT MOUTH?“

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  • “They’re both the main character because they’re both Frenchies” – me about my cousins’ dogs
  • “They’re both Leos”
  • “They’re both something else” – said cousin who deals with the dogs every freaking day

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  • “Makes sense, makes dollars, makes bills” – cutie barista about an answer to their question

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  • “Tío I like your pants! You look like a break dancer!” – my nephew to my dad about his grey jeans with a button down shirt

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  • “A BKL singularity is dangerously lethal” – the audiobook of The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne
  • “Like a normal singularity is not lethal 🙄” – me, the one who almost added a major in physics but I decided I wanted to have fun in college
  • “Right?” – my father, who majored in aero astro and suffered
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/S/Singularity

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  • “Why aren’t you fixing the servers 😠” – co-worker
  • “Is it because I’m brown?” – me
  • “Why would you say that?”
  • “Because I’m brown like [our IT guy]”
  • this was neither confirmed nor denied

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  • “I don’t think nips are allowed in Los Angeles” – a bestie describing an outfit she was planning to wear while visiting me
  • My request was: “an outfit you look ridiculously good in”

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  • “Me and my little bag against the world” – a cutie while carrying around MY bag!!!
  • “Shared custody” – them

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  • “I’m talking to you chumps” – folklorico maestro to my group, Group C because we’re just above beginners lol
  • “C for Chumps” – fellow-Group-C-er

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  • “Glasses are social construct” – cutie
  • every day i beg god for relief and every day i am forsaken

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  • “I spent five years learn how to be chronically online” – my cuñada when I ask her to help me find something on the internet 

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  • “Do I get baby yoda?” – cutie about what she will inherit if I die before her.
He’s weighted PERFECTLY so I love putting him in people’s arms and they ALWAYS INSTINCTIVELY PAT AND ROCK HIM
  • A minute later:
  • “You’re gonna haunt my ass if I die first?” – me
  • “I’m a crazy bitch you know that” – her
  • “Reverse haunting!”

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  • “Why Chicago during Christmas?” – me
  • “Feels like a more chill New York”

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  • I, simply in the a middle of a civil conversation, when a coworker walks by:
  • “Y ese mugre?”
  • “M U G R E ???!!!!!!!” – me
  • ABOUT MY TATTOO!!!!!
  • God forbid a gurl just want something cute on her body for the rest of her life
  • “And that dirt?”
  • “D I R T ???!!!!!!!”

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  • “Me and my ridiculous little purchases” – me
  • “That’s girlhood” – she understands

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  • “You have a fierce loyalty” – a cutie I got to see after too many years!!
  • “I believe you, but how did you see that?” – me 😅
  • “Are you kIDDING me?” 

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  • The next time you talk about a pendejo
  • and we thank goddess that there are no pendejos to speak of
  • AND YET
  • for whatever stupidass fuckin reason (want of a committed and loving partner to build and live a life with, idk), I ask a friend for advice to pass on to them

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  • I find situations
  • Dear future internet archeologists and/or FBI investigators: this is a very popular meme that has been around for a few years now. I am simply playing into the meme. I stand by my alibi.

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  • My friend talking about how her husband and one of our coworkers have the same clothes because they all shop at Costco
  • Me to a passing coworker: “Do you buy clothes at Costco?”
  • “No, because I’m not 40 and a father”

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  • “So, camina borrachito, we know that right?” – my dad about my nephew and how he got knocked on his little butt
  • “So, he walks like a drunk, we know that right?”

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  • “They don’t care how much I know because they don’t know how much I care!” – Joshua Doss on the Cinema Therapy episode about Sinners (He was talking about the religion he grew up in, and I think it applies widely)

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  • “Efficient (derogatory)” – about an experience with a man

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  • “We’re gonna give it a whirl” – bestie
  • “Me everyday of my life” – me
  • “Wake up, give it a whirl, go to bed.”

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  • “I’m grateful we’ve been friends for so long”
  • “Me too. It’s hard to indoctrinate new people into the weird.”

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  • “It could be drugs. It could be Magic cards!” – rationalizing worse ways to spend money

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  • “My corpse is still on three hills back!” – about dying on a hill

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  • “Fuck shack” – about the house made for Edward and Bella in Breaking Dawn Part 2
  • “Fuck ✨chalet✨” – me when it comes into frame

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  • I hope you all know that I’m the innocent one in A L L of ~this~

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  • “I think I have a single neuron dedicated to that reference and it’s dying” – me

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  • “That was like real housewives of CVS in there” – having seen a CVS worker on a rampage

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  • “That’s a load-bearing habit, you need to go to the gym” – her spouse after her overstimulation-induced-freakout

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  • “I lost my notebook” – bestie #1
  • “THE SACRED TEXT” – bestie #2
  • They understand me 🙂‍↕️

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  • “Sometimes all you need is a wave from a baby and your emotional needs are met” – me
  • Related: “I JUST WANNA MAKE SOMETHING AND PUT A LITTLE HAT ON IT” – Taylor Tomlinson about baby fever in her Quarter-Life Crisis (2020) special

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  • “Aerodynamic shoes? That’s stupid.” – dad
  • “They’re all areodynamic” – me
  • “They were developed is a freaking wind tunnel??!!” – … his senior thesis is about wind tunnels… 

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  • “I’ll get tested if you get tested” – me about getting tested for ADHD with a bestie
  • “We’re never getting tested” – bestie ;-;

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  • “What’d you cut it with, your mouth?” – my dad to our friend when the pumpkin pie they brought had a mangled “cut” edge

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  • “I put my feelings deep down” – co-cutie #1
  • “That’s…” – me
  • “Healthy? I know”
  • “No, I don’t think you do it as well as you think you do” – me
  • “Dang! Ariana with the truth!” – co-cutie #2
  • “Damn! You agreeing with me!”

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  • “I had [local chain restaurant] late night” – me
  • “Me too!” – co-cutie
  • “What’d you have?”
  • “The blackened salmon”
  • “Me too!!”
  • *laughing now, barely able to breathe*
  • “And what sides?” – me
  • “x & y”
  • “Oh, I got a & b” – me
  • “I usually gets those but I wasn’t feeling them last night!”
  • “Yea, it’s because you passed the brain cell to me!”

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  • “It was, excuse my pun, dogshit” – about an AI generated speech that was supposed to be from the perspective of a dog
  • Pun excused since it is at the expense of AI

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  • “What kind of government is the American government?” – my brother 
  • “A piece of shit!” – student

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  • “They’re not LA tacos, but they’re pretty good” – the beaner in Philly 
  • “They’re East Coast good” – me
  • “They’re East Coast EXCELLENT!”

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  • “I met someone the other day who’s favorite Pixar movie is Cars 2” 
  • “WHAT!!!! THAT’S I N S A N E” – me
  • “Art is truly subjective” – he teaches poetry

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  • “How’s your progress?” – me about a co-cutie’s giant-ass cross stitch piece 
  • “Goo- I mean, YOU’D KNOW if you’d been at yarn club!”
  • god forbid a gurl try to keep up on her health with lunch-time telehealth appointments 🙃

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  • My folklorico maestro never remembers my name but he’ll still talk shit about me
  • WE EVEN GOT SHIRTS WITH OUR NAMES ON IT!!!! AND HE STILL COULDN’T REMEMBER!!!!!
  • Thank goodness I have witnesses
  • He owes me a dollar every time he doesn’t remember my name
  • I think he owes me $8, only from when I started keeping track a couple of weeks ago

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  • “New characters unlocked” – about new dancers coming out unexpectedly in the middle of a folklorico performance

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  • “You can’t leave your man unattended, just say that”

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  • “Nothing we’ve never seen before… Nothing half of the club hasn’t seen before” – about a friend changing 😂😭

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  • “Who’s gonna give me a baby?” – she just wants to be an auntie
  • “Her! She’s had more pregnancy scares.” – I witnessed a murder
  • Unfortunately related:
  • “Do you use birth control?”
  • “If pull-and-pray is birth control the yea” – AND THIS IS THE ONE ACCUSING THE OTHER OF MORE PREGNANCY SCARES!!!! 

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  • “I don’t have to be a good daughter for someone else’s parents.”

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  • *she hugs me while saying* “Leftovers!” – her and I were not allowed on the practice stage because we weren’t there last week to learn the dance 😅

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  • “I’m realizing god didn’t make me a lesbian bc I’d be too powerful. She really said ‘you actually kinda do want a man’s approval every once in a while’” 🙃🙃🙃

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  • “Oat milk” – me
  • “Oat juice” – co-cutie #1
  • “Yea you’re right” – co-cutie #2
  • “And that’s a hill-” – co-cutie #1
  • “-you’re willing to die on” – me interrupting
  • “Not necessarily me, but someone’s gonna die on it” – co-cutie #1

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  • “I didn’t get any pizza” – co-cutie #1
  • “You were in Vegas, you don’t get to complain” – co-cutie #2
  • “Watch me!” 

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  • “She said ‘that’s my man!’” – me about a friend’s tiny cutie patootie dog liking the wolves in the Twilight movies

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  • “I am nothing if not a bag of bits and color” – me

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(O)possum Playlists of the Quarter 

Here, we scream.

And, “apparently,” I listen to my short playlists for a “wildly long time”

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Cuervos Chismoses

chisme = gossip. ”e” ending instead of “o/a” in Spanish for more gender inclusion

  • Celebrated Valentine’s day! As you all know, I’m a slut for all kinds of love

Picture it: Early February, 2026

  • “Did you see my lights?” – me (little cute lights with little cherries that look like hearts)
  • “Yes, and I thought ‘oh, this means war’” – co-cutie 
  • “War? From lights?”
  • “Yes, it was a blatant act of holiday aggression.”
  • “No, just wait until you see my outfit for Friday, THAT’S an act of holiday aggression.” 
  • “I’m assuming something Frizzel-esque?”
  • The Frizzel-eqsque outfit in question (sans cleavage tho, that’s only after sunset):

Picture it: Galentine’s Day, 2026, at my friend’s apartment

  • IN THE SAME OUTFIT AS ABOVE
  • “You’re still in skinny jeans?” – cutie
  • “What do you mean? Of course I’m in skinny jeans!” – me
  • “They’re out of style…”
  • “What are you talking about? I see people in them all the time.”
  • “And how old are they?”

Anyways

  • “I love your hair! You look 10!” – my mom about my half-up-half-down pigtails

Lastly, but not leastly:

  • In celebrating a life of my own, I leave you with:
  • I tried BUTTER CAKE for the first time and it was a m a z i n g. I took myself out to fancy Malibu restaurant that I am not shy to call “rich people Chili’s” bc it was loud and crowded and they were spending a lot of money on alcohol. I think they pitied me but I got free bread to go out of it 😁
  • I GOT TO SEE SO MANY FRIENDS, INCLUDING A COUPLE THAT VISITED AND WE TOOK CUTEASS PICS AT A TINY STUDIO WITH AIRBRUSHED HEART BACKGROUNDS 💕💗💖💘✨💕💗💖💘✨💕💗💖💘✨💕💗💖💘✨💕💗💖💘✨💕💗💖💘✨💕💗💖💘✨💕💗💖💘✨
  • I tried Tej (Ethiopian Honey Wine) for the first time and I’m In Love because I happened to take a sweetie through Little Ethiopia
  • I love seeing friends for the first time in 15 years and still being in love 🥹
  • Squirt
a la Flubber (1997)
  • I’ve been such a nerd (even more so that usual) by carrying around a 600 page book and reading it while waiting in lines
  • I love gifts 🥹

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The Void Shouts Back

If you would like to respond but don’t know what to say, answer the question below. If you don’t want to, just respond with keysmashing or send me a hug with your thoughts. If you don’t want to do that either, that’s okay too.

  • How do your celebrate your loved ones, especially outside of romantic love?

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I’m pretty sure I don’t know 29 people that live in Kenya???? Explain yourselves!!!!

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Abrazos and/or high fives,

Ariana

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